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HRM considers new transit fee for developersHalifax regional council is con-sidering introducing a region-wide fee on new development to help cover the capital costs of transit growth.

HRM councillors will vote this week on whether to adopt a special charge on new de-velopments.

“What council is saying is that rather than put it on the backs of existing taxpay-ers, new growth should be paid for by new growth,” said Barry Dalrymple, councillor for Waverley–Fall River–Mus-quodoboit Valley.

Currently, transit is paid for through general revenue, which is levied from residents across the municipality.

Dalrymple said the funds would pay for transit capital expenditures — new buses or buildings — rather than main-tenance or repairs.

“Nobody likes to see an-other charge on brand new builds, but at the same time nobody likes to see their taxes increase,” said Dalrymple.

Dalrymple said rural re-source areas would be exempt from the region-wide develop-ment fee.

But Paul Pettipas, CEO of the Nova Scotia Home Builders Association described the meas-ure as a “tax grab.”

“There’s no way you can talk about this as a regional fee,” said Pettipas. “This is just a tax, plain and simple.

“Whether you have transit or don’t have transit, you’re go-ing to pay this fee.”

Pettipas said he was con-cerned about the potential im-

pact on affordable housing and jobs, especially with the recent decline in home construction.

“It’s a huge disincentive for someone to buy a home,” he said, adding that the cost would be passed on to the property owner. “It’ll be a huge disincen-tive for business.”

Pettipas said the fee is also a double-dip because property owners would be paying addi-tional tax on those fees, which would factor into overall prop-erty value.

Dalrymple said the special development charge could be in place as early as April 2014. GEORDON OMAND/FOR METRO

‘Tax grab.’ Proposal dismissed by development group

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Confrontational, concerned and courageous.

That was how Rev. Rhonda Britton of Cornwallis Street Baptist Church described the late lawyer and activist Burnley “Rocky” Jones during a public memorial ceremony on Sun-day.

Hundreds of people joined her in the Rebecca Cohn Audi-torium at Dalhousie University to pay tribute to the civil-rights champion.

Performers and members of the public filled the space with music, stories and laughter.

The event included a read-ing by HRM’s poet laureate El Jones, as well as perform-ances by the Carson Downey Band and retired a cappella group Four the Moment.

“He would love this,” said Jones’ younger sister, Lynn. “He was so full of life, no matter the occasion.”

Lynn Jones described her brother as always smiling, al-ways ready for a hug, always challenging you to go another step.

“I always knew he was special. I always knew he was gifted,” she said. “I’m really humbled that so many people have displayed their affection and their little stories.”

Jones spent much of his adult life as a political activist, combating segregation and racism.

“The community has al-ways told him how much he is appreciated, how he mentored them, how he took them to new heights,” said Lynn Jones. “So this is just the cap on that whole thing.”

Sunday’s event was free, though donations were ac-

cepted for an education trust fund set up in Jones’ name.

Many of those who spoke at the memorial had been person-ally affected by Jones, including

Nova Scotia-born actor Walter Borden and former provincial cabinet minister Percy Paris.

“He truly was a beautiful person,” said Tony Ince, the

province’s Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs. “He al-ways greeted everyone with a smile.”

Ince said Jones was not only a key figure for the African Nova Scotian community, but for the whole province.

“I think all of Nova Scotia is going to see how proud we as a community are of this man.”

Jones died earlier this year of a heart attack. He was 71.

Kwesi Firempong off ers libation, left, and members of the Imoja Cultural Diversity Drummers perform during a tribute to the late Dr. Burnley “Rocky” Jones at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on Sunday. JEFF HARPER/METRO

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Public gathers to paytribute to Rocky JonesPillar of strength. Performances honour late Nova Scotia-based civil rights activist

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“Thank you for letting me stand on your shoulders as I made my way up the ladder of success.”Former Lt.-Gov. Mayann Francis, during Rocky Jones’ tribute on Sunday.

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Dozens of candles were lit at a vigil for Harley Lawrence in Berwick on Saturday night. Kings County RegisteR

Homeless man’s life celebrated

The family of a homeless man found dead after a suspicious fire in Berwick released bal-loons in his memory after a candlelight vigil, while on-lookers in the large crowd quietly called out, “Soar high Harley.”

Hundreds of people con-verged in the rural town Sat-urday evening to remember Harley Lawrence, 62.

Lawrence, who had been

living on the streets of Ber-wick since the spring, died in an early morning fire last Wednesday when the bus shelter he was staying in went up in flames.

Police say the death is con-sidered suspicious, and there has been rampant public speculation his death was the result of a criminal act.

John Andrew, pastor of the

Open Arms Ministry in Kent-ville, knew Lawrence well. He told the crowd gathered for the vigil the man’s battle with mental illness took its toll on his life.

“Because of his illness he couldn’t accept help from his community,” said Andrew.

Lawrence was remem-bered as a “quiet, shy, bashful man who liked his privacy.”

“He could be friendly, or he could be a pretty grumpy fellow,” added Andrew.

His memories of the man he had known on and off for about eight years drew laugh-ter and tears from members of Lawrence’s family who at-tended the vigil.Kings County RegisteR

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“I think we have sent the right message tonight.”Berwick Mayor Don Clarke, after a large and well-attended vigil for Harley Law-rence, the victim of the suspicious fire.

‘Soar high, Harley.’ Hundreds attend vigil for man found dead after fire in Berwick bus shelter

Defrosting meat in pan

Woman causes fire in SydneyTwo people were taken to hospital and 11 tenants have been temporarily displaced from their homes following a fire at an apart-ment building on Henry Street in Whitney Pier.

The fire was reported around 7 p.m. Saturday. Ac-cording to police, a 29-year-old woman attempted to defrost meat in a frying pan, causing the fire.

Two people were hospitalized for treatment of minor burns and smoke inhalation. Cape BReton post

Dartmouth altercation

Weapons seized after gun pulledA 42-year-old man is facing weapons charges in con-nection with a dispute in Dartmouth over work done to another man’s vehicle.

A 31-year-old man went to a home on Dawn Street around 4 p.m. Saturday to confront another man about the work. During that conversation, the victim had a gun pointed at him. He left and contacted police.

Officers arrested a suspect at the scene and found ammunition, brass knuckles and two rifles. MetRo

Halifax and Dartmouth

Fires damage two homesNo one was hurt in either of two house fires in Halifax Sunday.

The first happened around 6:10 a.m. in the 6200 block of North Street. Halifax Regional Police say the building was evacuated and damage was contained to the outside of the build-ing. The second happened around 3:30 p.m. at the cor-ner of Main and Guysbor-ough in Dartmouth. Crews found heavy black smoke coming from the main floor of a home, but the fire had mostly burnt out. MetRo

Provincial officials and vet clin-ics are cautioning dog owners about an outbreak of distemper among raccoons in the Eastern Passage area, and reminding owners to take precautions.

The Eastern Passage Vil-lage Veterinary Clinic posted a message on its Facebook page early last week warning clients about several recent reports of raccoons with distemper in the area.

A Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist confirmed the localized out-break had erupted in the middle of an otherwise quiet season.

“Last year was really bad, but this year we weren’t noti-cing anything ... until just re-cently,” said Shavonne Meyer, Thursday.

Canine distemper is a high-ly contagious virus that spreads through bodily secretions, in-cluding saliva, feces and urine. Meyer said it’s not uncommon to see localized outbreaks in

the raccoon population every year.

“It can affect foxes, coyotes, skunks, other animals,” she said. “Raccoons are most vul-nerable to it because … they congregate together and it’s passed from one to another.”

The virus doesn’t affect do-mestic cats or humans, but if

a pet dog is exposed, the virus causes eye and nose discharge, fever, loss of appetite and even-tually neurological symptoms. There’s no cure for the virus it-self, but Meyer said dog owners can take steps to protect their pets.

“Just have your pets vaccin-ated, keep control of your pet, so it’s not eating other animals’ waste, or coming in direct con-tact with a raccoon,” she said.

The virus doesn’t make animals hostile or aggressive, as the rabies virus would, but Meyer said anyone who sees a raccoon with suspected distemper should call the department immediately. RutH DavenpoRt/MetRo

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Plaskett plays Pop ExplosionHometown favourite Joel Plaskett entertains the second of two sold-out shows on Friday night at the Rebecca Cohen Auditorium. Plaskett was playing with Mo Kenney, both of whom were accompanied by Symphony Nova Scotia as part of the Halifax Pop Explosion. JEff HarPEr/MEtro

The owner of one of Halifax’s most popular live music venues says a costly new government fee for hosting international bands is hurting the local music scene and deterring artists from crossing the border.

The change, which took effect July 31, adds a $275 pro-cessing fee to a $150 work per-mit for international musicians hired to play at bars, pubs or restaurants.

During a press conference Friday, Mike Campbell of the Carleton Music Bar and Grill said the $425 cost is applied to every performer or crew per-

son he brings in, so “one guy with an acoustic guitar” and his sound man would run $850.

“That would add $8.75 for every single ticket I sold for the event, just to cover the gov-ernmental red tape,” Campbell said of his 100-seat venue. “That does not make any sense, and we will not be able to do it.”

Campbell said the idea there’s enough Canadian acts to feed places like The Carleton

year-round “is insane.” “You couldn’t do it. We need

people from other places,” Campbell said.

Large arenas like the Metro Centre are exempt from the fee, as well as non-profit festi-vals like the Halifax Pop Explo-sion.

But Jonny Stevens, Pop Ex-plosion’s executive director, said he’s had bands cancel their Halifax dates because their other Canadian stops were too expensive.

Halifax MP Megan Leslie said the federal government’s reasoning for adding the new fee is to save taxpayers the processing cost for bringing in these acts.

Leslie said it “makes no sense” for taxpayers to save on a singer-songwriter coming to town, and remain “on the hook” for big acts like the Roll-ing Stones or other Metro Cen-tre shows.

“It’s a very easy solution, just get rid of it,” Leslie said.

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Halifax NDP MP Megan Leslie speaksto reporters on Friday. HalEy ryan/MEtro

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Banners that suddenly cropped up around Tehran in the past week depict an American diplomat dressed in a jacket and tie, while under the negotiating table he is wearing military pants and pointing a shotgun at an Iranian envoy.

The anti-American images were ordered taken down Sat-urday by Tehran authorities. But they made their point.

It was another salvo by hardliners who are opposed to President Hassan Rou-hani’s pursuit of better ties with Washington and are wor-ried that Iran could make un-necessary concessions in its

nuclear program in exchange for relief from Western sanctions.

The banners and posters were something of a warm-up to the main event: Rou-hani’s critics are planning major anti-U.S. rallies on the Nov. 4 anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover in 1979 following the Islamic Revolu-tion.

Anti-American murals have long been part of the urban landscape in Iran. Now, however, the images re-flect internal divisions in Iran and suggest more intrigue ahead.the associated press

iran. anti-U.s. banners a sign of division between hardliners, new president

report: 1,500 canadians languish in foreign jailsFor nearly two months, all eyes were on John Grey-son and Tarek Loubani, the Canadian activists held in an Egyptian prison before being allowed to return to Canada.

Two other Canadians, Greenpeace activists Alexan-dre Paul and Paul Ruzycki, have also been in the head-lines as they remain in a Russian prison facing hooli-ganism charges. If convicted, they could be sentenced to up to seven years in jail.

But there are other Can-adians detained abroad who don’t have such a network of supporters, and fail to capture similar public atten-tion.

Overall, 1,590 Canadians are in prison outside the country, according to figures provided by Canada’s For-

eign Affairs department, ac-curate to Oct. 10.

The bulk of them — 1,097 — are behind bars in the United States. The rest are in prisons in more than 85 other countries.

Foreign Affairs wouldn’t provide a breakdown on the circumstances or duration of detention, nor how many cases the government is act-ively contesting.

But human-rights groups continue to monitor a num-ber of cases where they be-lieve Canadians are being wrongly detained or have been the victim of human-rights violations.

Often, it can take years to bring a Canadian back home.

Earlier this month, Ha-mid Ghassemi-Shall was finally able to return to Can-

ada after 64 months in an Iranian prison, including a year in solitary confinement.

Ghassemi-Shall emi-grated to Toronto, where he was working as a shoe sales-man, following Iran’s 1979 revolution. He was arrested on espionage charges while visiting his ailing mother in 2008, and faced the death penalty. International pres-sure, including a stream of letters from supporters to the Iranian government, may have been a factor in helping to keep him alive, according to Amnesty Inter-national Canada.

Each case “has a delicate strategy depending on the circumstances of the case,” said John Tackaberry, a spokesman for the human rights group.the canadian press

7th killed this year

Journalist gunned down in SomaliaA Somali journalist died in hospital after being attacked by gunmen, a colleague said Sunday, bringing to seven the number of journalists killed in Somalia this year.

Journalist Mohamed Mohamud, 26, died in hospital Saturday night, said fellow journalist Ahmed Nor Mohamed. “We have lost a precious life once again. Doctors were not able to save our colleague,” he said.

Mohamud was buried Sunday.the associated press

Jakarta’s roadside masked-monkey shows banned

Indonesia’s capital is saying no to monkey business. Literally.

Security forces are fanning out across Jakarta conducting raids to rescue macaques used in popular street masked-mon-key performances.

The order came from Jakarta Gov. Joko Widodo, bet-ter known as “Jokowi,” who wants all roadside monkey per-formances gone by next year.

He said that besides improv-ing public order and stopping animal abuse, the move is aimed at preventing diseases carried by the monkeys.

The city government will buy back all monkeys used as street buskers and shelter them at a 2.5-acre preserve at Jakarta’s Ragunan Zoo. The handlers and caretakers will be provided vocational training to help find new jobs.

Animal-rights groups have long campaigned for a ban on the shows, which often involve monkeys wearing plastic baby-doll heads on their faces. They say the monkeys are hung from chains for long periods to train them to walk on their hind legs like humans. Their teeth are pulled so they can’t bite, and they are tortured to remain obedient. The monkeys are often outfitted in dresses and cowboy hats and forced to carry parasols or ride tiny bikes.

Femke den Haas of the Jakarta Animal Aid Network welcomed the decision, saying at least 22 monkeys have been rescued since the sweep began last week and quarantined for health issues. She estimated about 350 animals work as street performers in Jakarta, adding they are no longer able to live with other primates in zoos and cannot defend them-selves in the wild.

Many of the macaques are trained at a slum area in east-ern Jakarta, known locally as “monkey village.” A trained macaque can be sold for up to $135.

Sarinah, 37, who owns 13

monkeys used in the daily street shows, said the ban has hurt her livelihood. Seven of her macaques have been con-fiscated in recent raids.

“Of course I’m disappointed … but I cannot do anything!” said Sarinah, a mother of three who uses a single name like many Indonesians.

She said she takes good care of the animals and loves them like her own children.

“They are the source of our life, how could we be cruel to them? No way,” she said, adding that she will keep her remaining monkeys hidden while waiting for a new job.the associated press

A street monkey wears a baby-doll mask as it performs in a slum in Jakarta, Indonesia. Security forces are conducting raids to rescue the macaques used in popular street performances. TaTan Syuflana/The aSSociaTed preSS

Indonesia. Move to rescue city’s macaques aimed at ending abuse and preventing disease


Clarification needed

$7B deficit boon being questionedThe surprising revelation last week that Ottawa is almost $7 billion ahead of schedule for eliminating the deficit is attracting the scrutiny of a budget watchdog.

The No. 2 person in the Parliamentary Budget Office says officials have asked the government for clarifica-tion.

“We’ll look at it because it will affect our own num-bers, and try and figure out what the source of it is,”

says Mostafa Askari.“There’s a part we still

don’t understand … as to why departments spent less than what they were ex-pected to … and why they (Finance) didn’t see it in March,” when the budget was tabled.

In a report last week, the government pegged the deficit for the 2012-13 fiscal year at $18.9 billion, rather than the $25.9 estimated in the budget.

The lion’s share of the difference was from lower program spending.

Askari said one press-ing question is whether

the savings were largely a one-time occurrence or will flow through to future years.

If they do, analysts say, Ottawa may be able to bal-ance the budget next year, one year earlier than the 2015 target, a boon for the Conservatives heading into an election year.

Some critics speculate Harper may have been borrowing the tactics of a famous predecessor, Liberal Paul Martin, who set a low bar to look all the better when good numbers ar-rived. the canadian press

Canada’s information watch-dog has been flooded with fresh complaints that the Harper government is too often citing security to with-hold documents requested under the Access to Informa-tion Act.

Suzanne Legault says that since April, her office has

seen a surge in such com-plaints — prompting her to ask for more specially trained investigators.

“I have observed a worry-ing trend in the number of new complaints of this type in the past four months,” Legault wrote in August to Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board.

“So far this fiscal year, we have received 107 new spe-cial delegation (security relat-ed) complaints, amounting to 80 per cent of the average number of incoming com-plaints that my office has previously received over the course of an entire year.”

Legault said the problem has been growing over the last five years, but has be-come acute this year.

She has asked Clement to increase the number of her investigators who have special security clearance to probe these complaints, to 12 people from the current eight.

Emily McCarthy, assistant information commissioner, said the growing number of these cases is just one as-pect of a striking rise in com-plaints from Canadians this year.

“We’re really seeing an explosion in our inventory”

of complaints, she said in an interview.

The largest number of complaints are about delays, fees and missed deadlines, McCarthy says.

In the first six months of this fiscal year, the number of complaints is almost 40 per cent ahead of the same time last year.

The office currently has 378 security-related com-plaints either in process or awaiting investigation.

Numerous critics have as-sailed what they see as the growing transparency deficit of the Conservative govern-ment. the canadian press

Access to Information Act. Info chief wants more staff to cope with Harper government’s information refusals

surge in denials for ‘security reasons’ on FOi: Federal watchdog

Suzanne Legault, Information Commissioner of Canada, earlier this month in Ottawa. Sean KilpatricK/the canadian preSS

Police enter a house where a mother and her four children were “cut and butchered” to death. the aSSociated preSS

arrest in brutal killings of mom, 4 kidsAn immigrant to the United States was arrested Sunday on five counts of murder in the deaths of his cousin’s wife and her four children in a stabbing rampage in their Brooklyn home.

The suspect, 25-year-old

Ming Don Chen, a cousin of the children’s father, implicated himself in the stabbings late Saturday in the Sunset Park neighbour-hood, police said. NYPD’s Phil Banks said the victims “were cut and butchered

with a kitchen knife.” Two girls, nine and seven, died at the scene, along with the youngest child, a boy, aged one. Their brother, aged five and 37-year-old mother, Qiao Zhen Li, died in hospi-tals. the assOciated press


Winter waves early greeting to CalgaryChic Chikinda shovels snow from the sidewalk in front of his home in Calgary Sunday morning, beneath tree leaves that have only just begun to turn yellow. Less than 24 hours earlier, it was 17 C in Calgary. The forecasted low for Sunday evening was –11 C. Robson FletCheR/MetRo In CAlGARY

Stormageddon. U.K. braces for worst storm in yearsDriving rains and high winds lashed the U.K. on Sunday evening, as officials warned that the storm forecasters are calling one of the worst in years will cause wide-spread disruptions for early morning commuters.

Officials said a 14-year-old boy is feared dead after be-ing swept out to sea while apparently playing in the surf in southern England.

Coastguard and police res-cuers searched late Sunday for the boy in high seas with poor visibility, but after sev-eral hours, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said it had turned into a search-and-recovery operation.

Sussex Police urged people to stay clear of the seashore until the storm abates. the aSSociated preSS

State fair. amusement ride operator jailed A ride operator is in jail after investigators say someone tampered with a ride at the North Carolina State Fair and compromised safety devices.

Timothy Dwayne Tutter-row of Quitman, Ga., faces three counts of assault with a deadly weapon. He oper-ated the ride when five people were hurt Thursday. Tutter-row is due in court Monday. His attorney said Sunday that

Tutterrow is devastated by what happened.

WakeMed hospital spokes-man Thomas Morris said three people remained in the Raleigh hospital Sunday after the ride on the state fair’s midway suddenly jolted into gear as people were exiting, dropping some riders from what eyewitnesses estimated to be six to nine metres in the air. the aSSociated preSS

a new way to predict heat waves earlier

Meteorologists may have found a way to predict some killer heat waves up to three weeks in advance. Now, the best they can do is about 10 days.

An earlier warning would help cities prepare, arrange to open up cooling centres and check on the elderly, said Ger-ald Meehl, co-author of a study that describes the forecasting clue.

The key may be a certain pattern of high- and low-pres-sure spots across the globe high in the sky. When that pattern shows up, the chances double for a prolonged and intense heat wave in the eastern two-thirds of the United States, ac-cording to the study published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience.

This could predict some types of heat waves but not all, meteorologists said. The study’s authors said they think the pattern occurred before last year’s heat wave in much of the central United States, but they still need more work to confirm it.

The researchers at the Na-tional Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., looked at heat waves that lasted at least a week and were about five to eight degrees warmer than normal. In any given summer week, the odds of a heat wave like this happen-ing are usually only about one in 67 in the U.S.

They did thousands of com-puter simulations and discov-ered that when high- and low-pressure systems line up in a specific pattern, it foreshadows heat to come in about 15 to 20 days. Scientists call this 6.4-kilo-metre-high pattern wave No. 5.

The weather on the ground at the time of the pattern really doesn’t matter; it can be rainy, dry, hot or cold, said study lead author Haiyan Teng, a scien-tist at the research centre. The same pattern that signals a U.S. heat wave also indicates differ-ent extreme weather in other parts of the globe, like heavy rains, she said.the aSSociated preSS

Wave No. 5. When high- and low-pressure systems line up in a specific pattern, it signals heat to come

The clue

“It gives you a little bit of a heads-up of what’s coming.”Gerald Meehl, co-author of a study that describes the forecasting clue

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When Toronto resident Rob-ert Jerome celebrated his 30th birthday by purchasing a unit in a low-rise condo develop-ment about 15 years ago, he quickly came to see his neigh-bours as his extended family, often meeting up to chat in

their shared courtyard, which would be filled with children in the summer.

And then Natalia Korolekh moved in.

What happened next were five years of alleged verbal and physical abuse that over-shadowed the community, end-ing with a judge issuing an or-der in 2010 for Korolekh to sell her condo and move.

The case is similar to one currently playing out in British Columbia, where a woman is appealing an order to sell her condo due to neighbour com-plaints. While rare, it’s a scen-ario some experts predict will

only become more common as the number of Canadians choosing the close-quarters of condo living rises. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Experts. As more Canadians opt to live in cramped condos, the number of residents turning to courts to settle fights will go up

Not loving thy neighbour

It is said good fences make good neighbours, but when you are surrounded by hundreds of residents disputes are morelikely to flare up. And some of those arguments inevitably end up in court. Darryl Dyck/THE caNaDIaN PrESS fIlE

Law of averages

Peter Roberts, a lawyer who specializes in commercial and property law, says whatever happens in the B.C. case will undoubtedly influence other judges the next time a problem neighbour ends up in court, which he predicts will happen more often.

Organic kibble? All-natural chow? Fido and Fluffy don’t know it, but their owners want them to eat better — and they are forking over big bucks to make it happen.

Even through the Great Recession, premium dog and cat food — the latest iteration of which is advertised as “nat-ural” and “organic” — has been claiming an ever-bigger share of the market. Sales of the more expensive brands jumped 68

per cent in the U.S. from 2002 to 2012, compared with 19 per cent for mid-priced brands and just eight per cent for economy brands, according to Euromon-itor International.

Major manufacturers like Nestle Purina and Del Monte Foods are also capitalizing on consumers’ willingness to spend more on food they per-ceive to be better for their furry friends. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posh kibble. Owners shell out for organic pet food

By the look of it, Fido might be eating a better meal than you tonight. Owners are increasingly paying top dollar for healthy pet food. MaTT SlocuM/THE aSSocIaTED PrESS

Sowing seeds of change

A new crop of tech-savvy farmers using mobile apps Farmers across the country are relying on new cyber tools to help them monitor the weather and their ir-rigation systems and even map crops.

Longtime dairy farm-ers in Vermont are now keeping records on their smartphones of their fields and crops — from manure and fertilizer applications to corn and hay harvests, thanks to a savvy University of Vermont researcher.

Agronomist Heather Darby of UVM Extension got the idea as she was working with farmers to de-velop plans to manage their fields and crops and protect the environment. She said the farmers weren’t very good at keeping records, but they used cellphones. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The 19-page federal justice department’s in-ternal review into its role in the the Fenwick MacIntosh extradition process — from Aug. 15, 1997 (“Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service contacts the International Assist-ance Group to discuss potential extradition request”) to July 14, 2006 (“Canada formally requests extradition of Mr. MacIntosh from India”) — has no named author.

The review — which followed the Su-preme Court’s decision earlier this year to uphold a lower court ruling that tossed 17 child sex abuse convictions against MacIn-tosh, largely because of delays in bringing the case to court — also does not name any-one involved in what Justice Minister Peter MacKay Friday described as a “depressing display of bureau-cratic bungling.”

Instead, they are simply referred to as “justice offi-cials…,” “prosecutors…,” “the RCMP liaison officer in India…,” “the new counsel…”

Similarly, the details of why what hap-pened happened are obscured under layers of report-speak.

There was “serious human error” and an “absence of institutional systems.” There was “an error, and it is unknown exactly why this error occurred.”

While lamentably lacking in substance, the review has the saving grace of acknow-ledging the reality of the system’s failures. “The victims and all Canadians had a right to expect better from federal public officials.”

And Justice Minister Peter MacKay — who was not justice minister when any of this happened — was himself admirably forth-right.

“I want to apologize and express my sincere regrets for the mistakes made by federal employees who played a role in this tragic case and the institutional failures that contrib-uted to this travesty of justice.”

Nothing more to see here, folks. End of story. No need for

a public inquiry. Move along.Except…Who were these nameless-but-apparently-not-blameless

federal employees and what, if anything, has happened to their careers as a result?

Why did they screw up so badly? Were they overworked? Undertrained in the ways of international judicial extradi-tion? Lazy?

As one of the complainants said after the report: “An apology from the federal government is fine and this review is fine, but at the end of the day nothing has changed and MacIntosh is still a free man.”

REVIEW ACCEPTS BLAME, ASSIGNS NONE

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Report-speak

The details of why what happened happened are obscured under layers of report-speak. There was ‘serious human error’ and an ‘absence of institutional systems.’

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SHAKE it An animal photographer has captured the amusing and absurd facial expressions made by dogs as they frantically shake water off themselves. Carli Davidson, 32, from New York, photographed 61 charming dogs while they were in mid-oscillation. Her entertaining portraits now feature in her new book SHAKE. METRO

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Q&A with photographer

‘You can’t trick them’How do you capture the ani-mal’s personalities so well?It’s what I’m looking for in all my photography. The feeling behind the image is what’s important to me, an expres-sion the viewer can anthropo-morphize. I spend time get-

ting to know the animals, and making them feel as relaxed as possible so they show their true character.

What are the biggest dif-ferences between a human shoot and a canine one?Animals work 100 per cent on instinct; you can’t trick them, so if you are not committed to the shoot they won’t perform.

They can sense your stress and they respond to it accord-ingly. So much about working with animals is about being in the moment with them, listening to their needs. This is similar with people, but we can just ask people what they need. With animals you need to create a dialogue based on instinct and respect. ANTHONY JOHNSTON/METRO WORLD NEWS

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In the animated fi lm Free Birds, turkeys voiced by Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler aim to get turkey off the holiday menu for good. CONTRIBUTED

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Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler’s latest feature film venture, Free Birds, follows a pair of turkeys using a stolen time machine to steer the first Thanksgiving menu away from their ancestors. But Poehler has plenty to concern herself with in the present day.

We spoke with Poehler just before some good and bad news broke for her: First, that she and Tina Fey would be hosting the Golden Globes for the next two years, and then that NBC was pulling Parks and Recreation from its schedule for three weeks.

Even considering the main characters are turkeys, is this really the best use for time-travel technology?Well, once we start breaking down animated films and the way that they should better use their technology, I think we’re really going to paint ourselves into a corner.

You’re manag-ing to squeeze in a lot of fi lm work between seasons of Parks and Recreation. It’s fun to do different things. My sched-ule with Parks is al-most

like a nine-month schedule with breaks in between, so I have lots of opportunities for hiatus stuff to do. And animated stuff, you can kind of do that on your hiatus and breaks in between. I filmed a couple of things last summer and the summer before that

quite a bit. It’s always fun to try to squeeze in what you can when you can.

What sort of projects are you keeping an eye out for?Well, I don’t know. Right now we’re

gearing up toward our 100th episode, so right now I’m like real Parks brain, just enjoying be-ing on set for that. And then what happens after the new year in the

spring, I’m not sure yet.

Yours was one of a very few comedies that NBC didn’t can-cel last year. That must feel at least a little reassuring. Yep, NBC has supported us by keeping us on. We appreciate that. Because I would rather do the show than not do the show, that’s what I’ve learned. So many shows have come and gone while we’ve been there. We’re kind of like the patient who watches the other patients die on the table. We’ve been lucky.

Certainly it’s tough some-times to just not know your fate all the time, and we’ve certainly never been a show where we knew our fate, but because of that I think it’s just made us put our heads down and try to control the things we could, which was the work and the writing and the show. I’m really proud of the show. I would watch it if I wasn’t on it, which is a nice thing for me to

be able to say honestly.

How do you think your character on the show, Leslie Knope, would’ve responded to the recent U.S. government shutdown?We were laughing about it. We basically did this in Season 3, which is Pawnee shuts down, but (during the real shut-down) she would’ve just been incredibly depressed. Like, in sweatpants, losing her mind.

Avian revenge fantasy. A pair of angry birds go back in time to save their kind from Thanksgiving

Weekend box offi ce

• Apparently, astronauts are no match for Jackass. According to studio estimates Sunday, Para-mount’s Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa tops the weekend box offi ce with $32 million US, sinking three-week champ Grav-ity to second place.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Legendary Lou Reed dies age 71

Lou Reed, the punk-poet of rock ’n’ roll who profoundly influenced generations of musicians as leader of the 1960s cult band Velvet Under-ground and remained a vital solo performer for decades after, has died.

Reed’s literary agent An-drew Wylie says the legend-ary musician died Sunday morning in Southampton, N.Y., at age 71 of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant.

The singer and guitarist first attracted attention as the leader of the Velvet Under-ground, a group that gained notoriety as an Andy Warhol project and combined a sense of the avant-garde with pop music. With Reed’s poetic lyrics and the band’s always

experimental (and sometimes dissonant) approach, they arguably serve as the start-ing point for alternative rock music.

Though the band was not commercially successful, its influence was widespread, historically on the left-of-cen-tre, resulting in the oft-quoted adage that though not many people bought the band’s first album, everybody who did ended up starting a band.

The Velvet Underground was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

After the Velvet Under-ground, Reed went on to col-laborate with David Bowie in the 1970s, finding chart suc-cess with Take a Walk on the Wild Side and carving out a niche for himself in the glam rock movement.

But as an artist, Reed was never content to compromise or to even do what his grow-ing fan base expected.

Over the years he released many albums that listeners and critics alike had difficulty with, such as 1975’s Metal Machine Music, which con-sisted of more than an hour of feeding back guitars that

sounded like what its title implies.

Other projects were also met with fierce criticism, such as his 2003 Edgar Allen Poe-inspired The Raven and his final release, a 2011 col-laboration with Metallica entitled Lulu. But for every unexpected left turn his muse took, Reed remained a

figurehead for the movement he started and his tours were always successful.

For a time Reed was infam-ous for his substance abuse, but he had cleaned up in his later years, finding new in-spiration in Tai Chi and his third wife, artist Laurie An-derson. He underwent a liver transplant earlier this year,

which Anderson had said was “as serious as it gets. He was dying.”

His legacy will live on in the songs he has left behind — in his own magnificent versions and in cover ver-sions by the likes of U2, Joy Division, Nirvana and David Bowie. With files from the AssociAted Press

In memoriam. Rock pioneer and Velvet Underground leader had undergone a recent liver transplant

Last gigs

• Reed stayed invested in the arts until his death, mentoring younger art-ists and even taking the time to write a review of Kanye West’s Yeezus on The Talkhouse website.

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Bieber doesn’t always screw up, but when he does ...

Justin Bieber is photo-graphed drinking a Dos Equis in Texas where, by the way, the legal drink-ing age is 21. Justin doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does it’s always super-icky and he wishes he’d asked for a Fanta.

According to the Daily News, someone connected to Planet Hollywood says

staff were provided with a list of evasive answers to use if asked whether Britney Spears sings live at her upcoming shows. They include: “You are pretty. Your hamster looks very soft.” “I’m afraid of interest rates.” “I don’t care for spin-ning classes” and “have you tried our endless shrimp?”Rumour has it Tim Burton

will be making Beetlejuice 2. Which explains why Mi-chael Keaton has been ask-ing Robin Thicke for his suit back and sending threaten-ing letters to Johnny Depp.

Billy Bob Thornton says then-wife Angelina Jolie got angry over his 2001 Monster’s Ball sex scene with Halle Berry. “Well,” he continues, “I’m sorry, but it’s not like anything interesting has happened to me since then.”

Perrie Edwards of Little Mix said of her band mates, “I wouldn’t say we’re feminists: we don’t hate our men.” “Oh, for bleep’s sake. This is what happens when I’m under-funded,” said the education system.

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Chris Brown charged

with felony assault

Chris Brown was arrested early Sunday in Washington, D.C., after a fight broke out near the W Hotel, police said, complicating an already snarled legal history for the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer.

Brown, 24, was charged with felony assault in an incident that started just before 4:30 a.m., D.C. police spokesman Paul Metcalf said Sunday morning. Chris Hollosy, 35, also was arrested on felony assault charges, Metcalf said. Brown and Hollosy were being held in police custody until Monday.The AssociATed Press

Thicke talks up hissex life

Robin Thicke would like everyone to know that he and wife Paula Patton have a fantastic sex life.

“We’re over-spiced. We could probably take a few spices off the shelf,” he tells

Elle magazine, adding that the couple enjoys getting intimate while listening to his music. “She likes to do it more than ever now. Sometimes she’ll even play groupie for me.”

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17metronews.caMonday, October 28, 2013 FAMILY

LIFEHalloween: Scariest day of the year for health-conscious parents

With mountains of candy, Hal-loween can be a nightmare for parents.

Traci Paige Johnson, creator of Blue’s Clues, offers sugges-tions for a fun and healthy Hal-loween. And if you’re wonder-ing what the voice of Blue is up to now, she’s pioneering Yum-miloo, an interactive musical food adventure series (current-ly an app, soon to be a show) designed to teach kids about healthy eating.

Before you equate Yummi-loo’s mission with “ruining Hal-loween,” keep in mind Johnson advocates candy in moderation. In fact, she says making sweets totally off limits will only result in an eventual binge.

“If you make candy an abso-

lute no, then it becomes more enticing,” Johnson says. “It’s all about balance, all about enjoy-ing the holiday and not being too taboo or negative about the candy. Embrace it, and use it as a teaching moment for kids.”

When it comes to healthy eating and rationing candy, make sure that kids are part of the process. “You can sit down together and figure out how much candy is good for a day,” Johnson says. “Maybe it’s one

little candy bar and two Smart-ies. Also, if they have a piece of candy, it’s good to serve it with a glass of milk or a little cut-up fruit to fill them up.”

Inevitably, you’re going to have more candy than you can

even think about eating. John-son recommends cutting some up, freezing it, and using it to cook with later on. “Use it again when you’re making oatmeal cookies or just sprinkle some on your oatmeal,” she suggests.

Johnson encourages parents to cultivate healthy eating hab-its in kids, but ultimately just enjoy Halloween. “The trick is to balance and have things in moderation,” she says. The trick is to allow treats.

Tips. There are ways to keep the candy-fi lled occasion fun and healthy

Candy-free activities

• Pumpkin volleyball. “Take orange balloons and have your kids draw on Jack-o’-lantern faces with black Sharpie, and sort of play volleyball,” Johnson says.

• Arts and crafts. “Collect leaves and acorns or anything from nature, and glue it on gourds or pumpkins to make creatures,” she says.

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Homework 101

Let’s break this down a bit, shall we?

Homework is work to be done at home. Whether

it’s work that should have been done in the class-room or work specifically designed to be done at home, there’s one com-monality that all chil-dren’s homework shares: it’s their homework. They need to do it.

You doing it for them is like having the supervisor come over to your produc-tion station and doing your job while you watch.

Resist the urge to have your child turn in perfect homework that’s only per-fect because you did most of it. If the teacher doesn’t know where/how they are struggling, they can’t help them in the classroom.

Also, don’t be a home-work nag. You’re not the one who has to explain to the teacher why it’s not done, and you’re not the one who misses recess be-

cause of it. Let this happen once and see how quickly they get the message.

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Hit (or two) of curry elevates Parsnip and Apple Soup

This recipe serves eight. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ JACkIE NoblE

Apples and parsnips go really well together and offer a perky taste of autumn. You can decrease or increase the amount of curry powder to suit your taste. If you cut back on the curry, grated fontina or white cheddar can be sprinkled over top just before serving. If you like a stronger curry fla-vour, use 10 to 15 ml (2 to 3 tsp) of curry powder.

You can reduce the satur-ated fat by substituting vege-table oil for the butter and using homogenized milk in-stead of cream.

1. In stock pot, heat butter over medium heat. Add onion and cook until soft. Add curry, parsnips, carrot and apples and cook for 5 minutes, stirring.

2. Add stock. Bring to a simmer and cook at a low simmer for 25 to 30 minutes or until vege-tables and apples are tender.

3. Purée soup with an immer-sion blender until smooth.

4. Add cider and cream. If soup is too thick, add more cider, 125 ml (1/2 cup) at a time, until desired consistency is reached. Season with pepper and salt.

5. Ladle into warm soup bowls, garnish with apple slices and a small sprig of thyme and dollop of mild goat cheese. The Canadian Press/Jill’s souPs by Jill WilCox (2007).

Ingredients

• 45 ml (3 tbsp) butter

• 1 large cooking onion, peeled and diced

• 5 ml (1 tsp) curry powder

• 4 parsnips, trimmed and cut into 1-cm (1/2-inch) pieces

• 1 carrot, peeled and diced

• 2 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and diced

• 1 l (4 cups) vegetable stock

• 250 ml (1 cup) cider (approx)

• 250 ml (1 cup) 35 per cent cream

• Sea salt and white pepper, to taste

Miso is a traditional Japanese soup and one of the many Asian soups trending in North America. It is also very easy to make.

Miso itself is fermented soybean paste that comes in a variety of colours. Barley and rice miso are also available at Asian grocery stores.

1. In saucepan, place dashi

soup stock (the easiest way to make dashi stock is to buy dashi powder at an Asian gro-cery store and simply add it to water) and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer. Add mushrooms.

2. Cut tofu into 1-cm (1/2-inch) cubes and add to soup.

3. Remove a ladleful of the

broth and mix it in a bowl with miso paste until smooth.

4. Stir miso mix into soup, making sure not to bring to a boil. Add green onions and serve. The Canadian Press/Jill’s souPs by Jill WilCox (2007).

Easy Japanese tradition offers instant comfort

Ingredients

• 1.25 l (5 cups) dashi soup stock

• 4 shiitake mushrooms, stems removed, thinly sliced

• 1 block (125 g/4 oz) firm tofu

• 50 ml (1/4 cup) miso paste

• 2 green onions, cut on an angle into 5-mm (1/4-inch) pieces

’Round the world wisdom

Facing adversity? Focus on what you can controlThe severe market crash in October 2008 changed my life. I started running to regain my health, both emotional and physical. Shortly after I took my first steps, I ran the Gobi March in China in June ’09, followed by the Atacama Crossing in Chile in ’10, and the Sahara Race in Egypt in ’11. In this post, I share a lesson about life, learned from the desert.

In the game of life chal-lenges are dealt to us every day, some big, some small. The danger of becoming overwhelmed always lurks just around the corner, and at times it finds us. When you sense that things are unravelling, be it at the workplace, or at home, get back to basics by asking yourself, “What can I control right now?”

First, assert your con-trol over smaller, simpler things you can achieve. If you can achieve a few small successes they can, and will, amount to a big win over time. The reward lies in the fact that ex-periencing success in one area of your life can be the turning point, going on to impact other parts of your life.

In 2008 I found myself overwhelmed by the econ-omy as it impacted every

part of my life negatively. I consciously chose to turn my focus onto one element I felt I could control — my health. I declared I would be fitter than ever before within one year, reasoning that doing so would serve to boost my energy and clear my mind. If the nega-tive economy persisted, I would at least have my health.

I set a goal to do some-thing only a fit person could do, running the de-sert, despite not knowing how to run. I took my first running steps in December 2008, and six months later ran 250 km across the Gobi desert.

What was an attempt to get fit cascaded into the rest of my life, changing it forever.

So always ask yourself, when facing a big chal-lenge, what parts of your life can you control?sTefan danis is The Ceo of nexCareer and Mandrake, and The auThor of Gobi runner

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20 metronews.caMonday, October 28, 2013SPORTS

AUS hockey

Huskies rebound, Tigers still winlessUnlike the Dalhousie Tigers, the Saint Mary’s Huskies had something to cheer about after a weekend of hockey.

After dropping their regular-season home opener 4-2 to the New Brunswick Varsity Reds on Friday, the Huskies (1-3) responded

with a 5-3 victory over the Moncton Aigles Blues at the Halifax Forum on Saturday. The 3-1 Acadia Axemen will welcome the Tigers on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the win-less Tigers (0-4) came up empty-handed on the road. On Friday, the P.E.I. Panthers edged Dalhousie 2-1, and on Saturday, the Tigers dropped a 5-2 decision to the Saint Thomas Tommies. METRO

AUS football

Huskies beat X-Men to securebye into fi nalsThe Saint Mary’s Huskies will host the Loney Bowl after all.

They went into Satur-day’s road matchup against the St. Francis X-Men need-ing a victory to secure first

place in the AUS football standings, as well as a bye into the championship game on Nov. 9, and that’s what they got.

Like all season long, the Huskies can largely thank their defence for a 12-6 regular-season ending vic-tory. Saint Mary’s defensive corps limited the X-Men to just 170 passing yards and 109 rushing yards. Husk-ies running back Michael

Dawes scored the game’s only touchdown on a one-yard run with 37 seconds remaining in the first half. Huskies quarterback Jack Creighton made good on 12 of 24 attempts for 155 pass-ing yards.

The loss eliminated the X-Men from post-season. The league semifinal will see the Acadia Axemen take on the Mount Allison Mounties on Saturday. ANDREW RANKIN/METRO

The Mooseheads’ Darcy AshleyJEFF HARPER/METRO

Ashley clutch again as Herd edge TitanNo one can accuse Darcy Ash-ley of flatlining since taking over as captain of the Halifax Mooseheads.

For the second time in four days, the five-foot-eight, 175-pounder came through in the clutch, scoring the game winner at crunch time.

On Saturday night, Ashley made no mistake on a lovely feed from Nikolaj Ehlers

with 3:03 left in regulation time to give the Mooseheads a 4-3 win over the Bathurst Titan before 7,782 ecstatic fans at the Metro Centre.

Ashley, who is wearing the “C” in place of injured captain Trey Lewis, also net-ted the game winner with less than five minutes to go Wednesday at home to the Charlottetown Islanders.

“I’m a 20-year-old player, I’m filling in as captain with Trey not being around right now, so it’s my job to con-tribute offensively and de-fensively,” said Ashley, who has eight points, including three goals, in his last three games.

The Herd beat the Titan 5-2 in Bathurst on Friday, limiting their opponent to a

combined 32 shots over two games.

The Mooseheads (12-7) remain in first place in the Maritime Division, three points ahead of the Char-lottetown Islanders, who have three games in hand.

The Mooseheads hit the road Wednesday to take on the Gatineau Olympiques.ANDREW RANKIN/METRO

If the Halifax Rainmen were in panic mode after drop-ping both of their pre-season matches, they certainly didn’t show it on Sunday afternoon.

A day after a 116-86 road rout at the hands of the Moncton Miracles, the Rain-men came up short again, losing their pre-season home opener 98-88 to the Island Storm before about 4,500 fans at the Metro Centre.

Rainmen guard Brock Gil-lespie, who finished with 14 points, said the team’s in its experimental phase where, among other things, players are finding their rhythm and establishing chemistry with each other.

“We’re trying differ-ent things,” said Gillespie. “Sometimes when you’re experimenting you don’t really have an identity and so you’re learning on the fly. That had a lot to do with the losses.”

With their pre-season over, the Rainmen are pre-paring for their regular sea-son home-opener against the Saint John Mill Rats at the Metro Centre on Friday at 7 p.m.

“We know what we need to do when the lights come on,” said Gillespie. “We’ll be

ready.”In both pre-season match-

ups, the Rainmen got off to awful starts, but improved as each game wore on. Down 69-31 at the half, the Rain-men regrouped and managed to outscore Moncton 55-47 in the second half. Likewise, on Sunday, the Rainmen

couldn’t climb out of a 34-18 first-quarter hole.

Rainmen centre George Goode led all scorers with 22 points. He also took the loss in stride.

“We’ve only been together for a week,” said Goode. “But, I know we’re going to get it together.”

Rainmen will be ready ‘when the lights come on’: Gillespie

The Rainmen’s Ivan Harris tries to get past the Island Storm’s Shawn Vanzant during NBL of Canada action at the Halifax Metro Centre on Sunday. JEFF HARPER/METRO

NBL. Players attribute second pre-season loss to experimentation, growing pains

Ready for the real deal

“Those are two tough losses, but we’re going to get it together and be ready on Friday.”Rainmen centre George Goode, on the team’s regular-season opener.

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Red Sox pick right time to rebound in St. Louis

Boston’s Jonny Gomes hits a three-run home run to left field against SethManess of the Cardinals in the sixth inning of Game 4 of the World Serieson Sunday night in St. Louis. Robb CaRR/Getty imaGes

Jonny Gomes hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer in the sixth inning and the Boston Red Sox rallied to beat the St. Louis Car-dinals 4-2 Sunday night, tying the World Series at two games each.

David Ortiz added three hits and also encouraged the Red Sox, shouting at his teammates from second base after a double and later gathering them for a huddle in the dugout.

Inserted into the starting lineup about 75 minutes be-fore gametime because Shane Victorino had a stiff back, Gomes was 0 for 9 in the Series before connecting off reliever Seth Maness.

The slumping Gomes greet-ed the sinkerballing reliever with a two-out, tiebreaking shot into the Boston bullpen beyond the left-centre field wall.

Gomes spread his arms wide as he rounded first base, shouted and twice banged his chest.

Felix Doubront won in re-lief of starter Clay Buchholz. John Lackey made a rare relief appearance to set up for Koji Uehara’s save.

Game 5 is Monday night, with Jon Lester starting for Bos-ton against Adam Wainwright.The AssociATed press

World Series. Gomes’ three-run shot proves to be the difference as Boston knots up Fall Classic at 2 games apiece

NHL

Sheppard gets 1st goal in Sharks win in OttawaLower Sackville’s James Sheppard registered his first goal of his NHL season on Sunday — just months after fully recovering from a career threatening knee injury and being signed by the San Jose Sharks in the off season. The 26-year-old forward also posted an as-sist in the Sharks 5-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators. MeTro

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Jets can’t hang at Avs’ altitudePaul Stastny had a goal and an assist in the third period, Semyon Varlamov stopped 24 shots, and the streak-ing Colorado Avalanche beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 on Sunday night. Matt Duchene and Jan Hejda also scored for the Avs, who are 10-1 for the first time in franchise history. The AssociATed press

Sabres-Islanders trade

Vanek sent away to Long IslandThe New York Islanders acquired forward Thomas Vanek from the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday night for forward Matt Moul-son, a first-round pick in 2014, and a second-round pick in 2015.

The 29-year-old Vanek, a former Uni-versity of Minnesota star from Austria, had four goals and nine assists in 13 games this season for Buffalo. In nine seasons with Buffalo, he had 254 goals and 243 assists in 598 games.

Moulson, who will turn 30 next week, had six goals and three assists in 11 games this season. He has 124 goals and 109 assists in 333 games in seven seasons with the Los Angeles Kings and Islanders. The AssociATed press

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Argonaut.The former first-round

draft pick of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills joined the CFL club’s practice roster Sunday.

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Calvin Johnson thought Mat-thew Stafford was going to spike the ball for at least an-other snap.

The Dallas Cowboys did, too.

Stafford’s one-yard lunge over a pile of linemen with 12 seconds left and Johnson’s 329 yards receiving lifted the De-troit Lions to a 31-30 win over Dallas on Sunday.

“I was yelling that I was go-ing to spike the ball,” Stafford recalled. “But their linebackers were just standing there.”

The Cowboys weren’t just standing around letting John-son make catch after catch, but he made them look helpless.

Johnson almost broke an NFL record, and could celebrate the feat because of a comeback from a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit that some people who entered Ford Field didn’t see because they had left.

“Even our fans didn’t think

we could pull this one out,” he said. “They were leaving, but we knew we could do it.”

Johnson’s total trails only the 336 yards receiving Flip-per Anderson had for the Los Angeles Rams against New Orleans on Nov. 26, 1989 in a game that went into overtime.

The Cowboys dared Detroit to throw to Johnson with a lot of one-on-one coverage. They usually asked corner-back Brandon Carr to do the

improbable by defending him by himself, and sometimes attempted to slow him down with a zone.

“He had his way,” Carr said. “And we couldn’t find a way to keep him from rolling.” The assoCiaTed Press

NFL. Johnson’s 329 yards receiving keeps Detroit in the game; Stafford’s one-yard TD lunge wins it

Lions roar back to win shootout over Cowboys

Lions receiver Calvin Johnson leaps between Cowboys Jeff Heath, left, and Brandon Carr to make a 54-yard catch on Sunday in Detroit. Leon HaLip/Getty imaGes

Around the NFL

Chiefs 23, Browns 17. Alex Smith threw for 225 yards and two touchdowns for the league’s lone undefeated team at 8-0.

Broncos 45, Redskins 21. Pey-ton Manning overcame four turnovers and Denver scored the last 38 points in a come-from-behind win. Manning finished with 354 yards and four touchdown passes.

Raiders 21, Steelers 18. Ter-relle Pryor ran 93 yards on the first play from scrimmage for the longest touchdown run by a quarterback boost-ing Oakland to 3-4.

Bengals 49, Jets 9. Andy Dal-ton threw a career-high five touchdown passes — four of them to Marvin Jones.

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EASTERN CONFERENCEATLANTIC DIVISION GP W L OL GF GA PtTampa Bay 11 8 3 0 39 31 16Toronto 12 8 4 0 40 30 16Boston 10 7 3 0 30 17 14Detroit 12 6 4 2 27 33 14Montreal 11 6 5 0 33 22 12Ottawa 11 4 5 2 30 32 10Florida 12 3 7 2 26 42 8Buffalo 13 2 10 1 20 37 5

METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP W L OL GF GA PtPittsburgh 11 7 4 0 35 28 14Carolina 11 4 4 3 25 33 11NY Islanders 11 4 4 3 35 36 11Columbus 11 5 6 0 31 29 10Washington 11 5 6 0 32 35 10New Jersey 11 2 5 4 24 36 8NY Rangers 9 3 6 0 15 33 6Philadelphia 10 3 7 0 18 27 6

WESTERN CONFERENCECENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OL GF GA PtColorado 11 10 1 0 35 16 20Chicago 11 6 2 3 34 32 15Minnesota 12 6 3 3 29 26 15St. Louis 9 6 1 2 35 23 14Nashville 12 6 5 1 23 32 13Winnipeg 13 5 6 2 32 37 12Dallas 10 4 5 1 26 31 9

PACIFIC DIVISION GP W L OL GF GA PtSan Jose 12 10 1 1 48 20 21Anaheim 12 9 3 0 39 31 18Vancouver 13 8 4 1 38 37 17Phoenix 12 7 3 2 40 39 16Los Angeles 11 7 4 0 33 29 14Calgary 11 5 4 2 34 39 12Edmonton 12 3 8 1 35 48 7Note:Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’sresultsSan Jose 5 Ottawa 2Tampa Bay 4 Florida 3 (SO)Anaheim 4 Columbus 3Colorado 3 Winnipeg 2Los Angeles 2 Edmonton 1 (SO)Saturday’sresultsPhoenix 5 Edmonton 4San Jose 2 Montreal 0New Jersey 4 Boston 3NY Rangers 3 Detroit 2 (OT)Toronto 4 Pittsburgh 1

Tampa Bay 3 Buffalo 2Philadelphia 5 NY Islanders 2Winnipeg 2 Dallas 1 (SO)Minnesota 5 Chicago 3St. Louis 6 Nashville 1Calgary 5 Washington 2Monday’sgames—AllTimesEasternDallas at Buffalo, 7 p.m.Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m.Montreal at NY Rangers, 7:30 p.m.Chicago at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Washington at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

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WEEK 18EAST DIVISION GP W L T PF PA Pty-Toronto 17 11 6 0 487 435 22x-Hamilton 17 9 8 0 416 461 18x-Montreal 17 7 10 0 436 451 14Winnipeg 17 3 14 0 354 548 6

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Sunday’sresultsHouston 2 D.C. United 1New England 1 Columbus 0New York 5 Chicago 2Vancouver 3 Colorado 0Los Angeles 1 Seattle 1Saturday’sresultsToronto 1 Montreal 0Kansas City 2 Philadelphia 1Portland 5 Chivas USA 0San Jose 2 Dallas 1(EndofMLSRegularSeason)

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Aries March 21 - April 20 You cannot expect to control each and every situation in life and if you do then disappointment is inevitable.

Taurus April 21 - May 21 Your energy and enthusiasm are high, thanks to the influence of Mars in the most dynamic area of your chart, but what you start you will be expected to finish, so don’t take on too many new projects.

Gemini May 22 - June 21 You may be eager to get going and prove yourself but cosmic activity in the work and wellbeing area of your chart means you must not do too much.

Cancer June 22 - July 23 If you push too hard you may turn people against you. It will pay you to keep your activity limited, at least until midweek when the approaching influence of the eclipse will spur you into action. Save yourself for then.

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Virgo Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 What you say and do over the next few days will, to a large extent, decide your fate for the remainder of the year. These are serious times and the universe has serious tasks for you to perform.

Libra Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 There are so many things you want to do but if you rush you may peak too soon, so pace yourself sensibly.

Scorpio Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 As far as you are concerned the world is divided into two kinds of people: winners and losers. You, of course, are one of life’s winners and what you do over the next few days will prove it. Be brilliant!

Sagittarius Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 You may not care what the world thinks about you but if you are smart you will pay attention to what those closest to you say.

Capricorn Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 Listen to advice from friends and family but listen to your inner voice too. Whatever questions you may have, the answers can be found in your own heart as much as in the wider world – and they’re more reliable.

Aquarius Jan. 21 - Feb. 19 The planets urge you to push your fears and doubts to one side and step boldly into the public domain. You may by nature prefer to stay out of the spotlight but you also have an important message for the world.

Pisces Feb. 20 - March 20 So many things are uncertain at the moment but one thing is for sure: whatever setbacks and upheavals you may encounter you will come up smelling of roses. SALLY BROMPTON

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